Brooklyn Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge

Title:

Brooklyn Bridge

Author:

Hesse, Karen.

Personal Author:

Hesse, Karen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, [2008]

Physical Description:

229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary:

In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.

General Note:

Maps on endpapers.

Language:

English

Reading Level:

680 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 6.0 124429.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.3 11 Quiz: 45115.

Subject Term:

Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.

Teddy bears -- Juvenile fiction.